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Article: The mystery man of the Harlem Renaissance: novelist Rudolph Fisher was a forerunner of Walter Mosley.(The Walls of Jericho; The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem; The City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher)(Book Review)
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- Black Issues Book Review
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- May 1, 2003
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The Walls of Jericho (Black Classics) by Rudolph Fisher The X Press; March 1997, $9.95, ISBN 1-874-50928-X
The Conjure-Man Dies: A Mystery Tale of Dark Harlem by Rudolph Fisher University of Michigan Press, March 1992 $16.95, ISBN 0-472-06492-4
The City of Refuge: The Collected Stories of Rudolph Fisher edited by John A. McCluskey University of Missouri Press, May 1987 $16.95, ASIN 0-826-20630-1
He left behind only two novels and 15 short stories when he died from a stomach ailment at age 37 in 1934. Every one of those sharply observant, often satirical, sometimes sad, works has the same setting--Harlem. Rudolph Fisher's Harlem was peopled by ...